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(teye-TRAY-shuhn) In chemistry, the determination of what materials are present in a sample by adding precise amounts of known chemicals and observing the chemical reaction.	1
‡ The term titration is occasionally used informally to suggest extreme precision in some sort of measurement or determination.	2

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